The Sun. — London, England, 1810-11-23 00:00:00

epte lll ; t „ 1 0 6 L i e 1101° ! nergY:. :urr.o l ;WY at per e tA° j esr, ( 7, 1 60 1 ' rho' 1; 8 ` P(1 ;;CiP a t di i — a l efiC fr t 0: 1 1 . 0 10511( 15 ms, is b3Alv ne vi ,0 ,41 " 1:171 I ' ls . brit" v os; Itlee"' te be, ir°`D - , \t bo to r 4►', OP P. • ~e r o'l7 PACCIN.4I'IOA. • -• . . rely 1 1 . 1'1 , e taken a l ea di ng part respecting this lataa Y i . nl P °T. intlt subjea, which will be interesting to tarti l ) ' i nd as long as' they are inhabitants of , this ar" and have admitted . freely the - statements and q,g",, nn ents of Its opponents . , as well as supporters, to t e Public rerreit Our duty to Present the following article Ore ce .01 Minister of the Interior.--,Central Committee of th e Vaccine Institution, at Paris. . x i ecid years of labour and success, have at . length p os , 'LI tile important question, as to the Vaccine it l es siag the power of preserving all those in whom s 4l ',llre%elary gone through its progress, from the, of P °x• This has been carried to .such a degree mi t - t e ?; ll tY by the experiments of the Central Corn- P re .e ci and its numerous correspondents, as 'well ao n ehmen as strangers, that tl•ere is not at present th Y .a `' . • l medirmie better proved or more certain, ho ' n- ' that which establishes the truly anti-vuriolous r W f i er 01 the Vaccine. Majesty 'the Emperor and King, to whom the pr es en t reports of the Central Committee ,have been 11 , 0 -se l nted, has been sensible of. the adYantages which s e - „, u 'd result from the general propagation of the k n eculation. His Majesty has seen the preser- Nr ' e n and lecrease of the population of his vast em nnreediately- connetted with the adoption of . lii ti - , ll ',."hed. He has had ;an ,account, rendered to ye - A o l the obstacles which, in some districts, might v on t ?Puse, its progress, and has found that these is%„'`'tecl principally in the great difliculy of procur and Preserving the Vaccine fluid: pe6 n C a%equence his Majesty wishing to give his .signal nark rk of, his paternal . solicitude, has r• r e a to his Excellency the Minister of the Inte "10- aa annualand Special credit, destined to provide ti e r , th , e ,expetices necessary for' extending the 'nue ,•- rle has formed, in 24 of the principal cities of 0 (I ce, depots of the Vaccine fluid, :ti Mere every • of 1e w ho - wishes to pradict vaccination.may be sure finding disposable matter. These are, Bourdeatix, Brussels, Caen, Clermont Dijon, Florence, Lisle, Lyons, Marseilles, to ' n z, 'Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, ()deans, Par- Bermes, lipuen, Saintes, Strasbourgb, kit" ''e, lours, and Turin. ty Majesty has further cleated a Vaccine Com til.t.ee at each of these depots, .and has.preserved to le t ,,, t: ' e nttal Committee, established near. his Excel r? tile Minister of the Interior, its original or ands4ll°ll, charging it with the central depot of • I cf c onclusion, his- Majesty has appointed, by his ak -e e of the titli-Nov. last, annual,rewards for those . h ` s hall have pet formed the greatest .number of c o - ali ens—colletted t lie mostimportant facts—over sir F e most ob s t ac l es — an d arreste d t h e course of va rt:b°,,ns epidemics. These rewards have been so dis lab ut ed, that-every effort has been noticed, and every °lir proportionally recnitipen••ed. pa nes ; are t tins determin e d r — st, A prize ,of 3000 p i ::" e s; 2d, two p r iie s o f - 2000 frauds ; 3d, three xo, lze s of Iwo francs ; and 4th, a hundred silver eats bear:ti g the head of the Emperor. -p re - h ese powerful motives always to ke e p' up and to se rve the Vaccine fluid ; this energetic incentive a " emulati on w hi c h m u st dire& the efforts of - e Pra aitioners towards a rapid eropagation of' the a t i a e ce :!ne, leads to th e hope that the public commud of his Majesty's benevolent intentions, will t h e , s n n theient to give a general impulse in favour of lib" ew method, and b an i s h i n a'few years, that ur ge, the, Small Pox, from the French territory. A • 1Ir e „ dy the returns of t h e m or t a lity in th e city o f ). n 's , for the year 1800, exhibit only 213 deaths 41 4 S mall Pox. Thi s num b er, thoug h yet too'con ii:ra t ele, sinc e t h e V acc i ne o ff ere d to t h ese 213 ir `tiths a Certain method of preservation, is yet ex al;illielY small in compari son of that o f some years, 3a n the epidemic Small Pox has carried off, in the e it.(', more than 20.000 individuals. The ti , - .."'"ltee does not hesitate to atirinute this dimi ferti" of mortality to the zeal with which the difs se: nt Members, who compose it, have extended tlis- P ra ctice in the large establishments to which th e Y are attached, as Physicians and Surgeons; to : l eri: "r 4 of all the professi ona l men, and of some s .e esiastics in the capital ; and lastly, to the con ete4ntls exsa-tions of Messieurs the Counsellors of A re, the P re f ects of the Seine and of Police, the ro a Yps and t h e i r ass i stants, w h o h ave a l ways se iq the Committee with the greatest zeal, and many i tistances, anticipated' its intentions. hEvery good man , an d every -f r i en d to man ki n d ,, serde then, that the new measures taken by la b iiajesty,' will at length effett that which the ex of the Committ ee h a v e l o ng led th e m t o w ill '`• There i s reason to b e li eve that they and so stimulate tile emulation 'of all Physicians a 1 ea Uur S~Ons,' that very shortly the Small Pox, the e mY unknown in many departments; ' where zeal of the Prefects has been such, that there ai 11), none to -vaccinat e but th e infants b o r n in everyear, will enti re ly di sa pp ear f rom F iance , as le eg c P.rnsy has done, of which no traces are found, ou , e Pt in the hi s t ory o f t h e worst governe d ages o f ' Monarch y. the Committee embraces this opportunity of re ef the the publi c , t h at t h e C entra l E sta bli a h ment ate ;i:e Vac c i ne founded the 7th Feb. 180 t , and situ is . in No. 1, R ue d u B atto i r, S t. A n d r e d es -A rcs , I ,,stdl Carri e d on ; that Vaccination ' is praaised gra ti m o iL°us lY there every T uesday and Saturday, at gratuitously that th e c h ildre n of the poor are admitted during th e course o f t h e V acc i ne; an d that application torVacente fluid, should -be address inader cover phYsieiaq to his Excellency, to M. Ilusson, of the H ote l Dieu, and of the Imperial ', e ll. , Secretary / t o the Committee.. day'olvfein ► n at th e s i tting of the t tth May, 1810, the • th e th e 10th Anniversary of the foundation of huittee. Si gned by all the Members. DUCHANOY, President. Corvis art 1. I. Leroux Delasteyrie • Marin Gutllutiu Uuhtiel Mottgenot Haile Paitatt Hazard Panel laaelo t Satmade • Thuurct. Hv sson, Sccretary. 5‘ ,1 ? LArp REPORT. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. z 2. THE KING V. HARVEY AND FISHER. The ArTOR N NY-GENERAL moved fur the judg ment of.the Codrt 'on Thomas Harvey and John FiTher; _ The information against the defendants was read by the Clerk. It charged 'the two defendants, the former of whom 'was the-printer, and the latter the publisher of the newspaper called The' Day, with printing and publishing in their paper, of the Bth of April last, "a scandalous, malicions,, and .SrditiOus libel against the Military 'force of this country.. The pub;ication in question professed to give an account . of the proceedings i n th e n e i g hb our h o od'ot Picca dilly, during Saturday and Sunday, the 6th and 7th April last. The reading of the Riot A&, it stated. " a6led as a signal for miluary execution, and in a few minutes the Horse Gbards. with the most in human violence, charged an unarmed and unresist ing people." Marty of the populace, according to this statement, sought for safety in lanes and private passages, but the soldiers seemed aauated by a wish to shed human blood. The jaded appearance too, of the soldiers, the next morning, and their swords stained with' the blood of an injured people, plainly shewed the obduracy of their hearts, &c. &c, On this information the defendants allowed' judgment to go against them by -default. On the part of the prosecution there were no affi, davits filed. The defendant Harney filed an affidavit in extenu ation, in which he stated, that the . affAirs Of the pa per were managed by a Committee of 'fifteen pro prietors, by whom it was ordered that the publica-• tion should. at all times-take place at six o'clock in the mornin g . The person employed to give a fair and accurate report of the proceedings in.the neigh-. bourhood of Piccadilly, during the period in ques tion, did not arrive at the office till past one in the morning ; he wrote his account on mall slips of paper, which were distributed among the composi tors as they were wr itten, without the defendant having had any opportunity of perusing them, nor did he actually peruse the article till next day, when he tilt extreme sorrot , and surprize to find it so very obje6tionable; the writer of it being a. person who had been employed in - a newspaper for several years, , and one who, he understood, -might have been trusted. The defendant then felt., and Still did feel extreme sorrow and contrition for the offence of which he had been guilty. He'had a wife and eight children, the eldest of whom was under 13 years of age, .dependent on him for support, and he threw himself on the compassion of the Court. •• • • Mr. Fisher's affidavit also bore, •that he was com pletely ignorant of the contents or .nature of the pub lication till after. it had appeared ; so. much, how ever, did he disapprove of it, that he caused it to be omitted in,anothpr paper published on the Mon , .. day evening,. called The Kational Register, of which he is one of the proprietors, the article in ques tion having been intended for insertion - in that pa per also. An affidavit was-also filed by Mr.:Collier, the at» torney for the.defendants, stating that previous 'to, the present prosecution the defendants had offered to the conductors of the prosecution to give up the , name of the author, and also • the manuscript of the at ticle in question. • -The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the present was without any exeeption the most wicked and libellous publication ,to. which he ,had eVerielt it to be his duty to call the attention of that Conti ; and it wag for the defendants, to shew why a punishment pro portioned to its enormity should -not be visited 'on them. In this resped the affidavit last read, from which it appeared that the defendants had affered to give up the author, and the manuscript.copy of the. libel, could little avail them. , He wished it to be known, (known indeed, he believed it was, though.' the reverse was- pretended) that the giving - up the author was no excuse for the'printer and p,ublisher. All the ill they could do they had already done;— they hadtiven the libel to the public—end it was only because they feared that a just punishment was about to fall upon themselves, that they latterly en deavoured to turn it over upon others. He was far, front thinking such conduct 'a justification, or even an extenuation. The other - two affidavits which had, been lead, were by the defendants themselves, the one the printer, and the other the publisher, and one of the 1300 proprietors of this paper, it, being divided into so many shares., He did exped, as these affidavits were pointed in eipressing the im -mediate contrition of both defendants, for the of fence they had committed, that they would' have closed with narrating the paragraph in which, in their next, or some',following publication, they had expressed that contrition t. the public. For such paragraph, however, he looked in vain ; not that he thought that would have justified the defendants, though the having adopted such a course might have shewn that they, had been speedily awakened to a sense of their error, the total absence, however, of every evidence of this kind, was sufficiently demon strative how insincere was the contrition they now professed to have felt; and if these defendants would ttirn their attention to what they had published two days after the publication of the libel in question, he was satisfied. they would repent having said in their affidavits that they felt contrition at the time. He should now proceed to consider, who these per sons were whom the defendants had libelled, and how undeserving they were of such treatment. Every person who heard him must be aware in what state a considerable part of this great city was at the time to which the libel in question referred. The mili tary had been necessarily called out on the occa sion, to the discharge of an irksome and disagree able duty. They could .not be conceived as at all ins . terested in the service, nor could they exped any reConipence or advantage to themselves to result from it;—their sole reward must, arise from a con sciousness of discharging their duty to their own credit, and to the satisfaction of their fellow citizens. All who heard hint, he believed, knew the forbear ance which those men had observed. They - suffered themselves to be insulted, nay, even to be fired on, and wounded, before they resisted in their own de fence, and for the public safety. He naed hard:y say, there was no foundation for the present charge. The Attorney-General then proceeded to read the paragraphs in the publication, ‘thich were partici,- lady objedionable. Was it to be endured, he ask- . e t, that the / triihtiry of this country, that portion of them, even who were more peculiarly our feilow ci tizens, should be charged with taking pleasure in' shedding the blood of our own subjects ? It sinelian, abominable charge were allowed to pass, and,' of course, front remaining tincontritclided, io be sup-` posed not capable of contradiction, all the bonds be; . tween them and the public must be at once loosen ed; or, if' false;aild still uncoetradiated and un punished, what inducement could remain to the military of this coun t r y to di-charge their duty ? On the rest of the publication,, in which the apPear auce of the' soldiers, on the following morning, is . repre - seeted, their swords .stained with the blood of an injured, people, so as plainly to shew their -.ob durate hearts, the Attorney-General thought it tot necessary for hlm to say a word nothing in, hs pOwer to say could add to its malignity ;• their Lord ships would look to it. They would look to the soldiers, 'they would, look to the people of this crein try- Sod., they would award such a measure of punishment in this cause as should see t ii to them. to do equal justice to ail. Mr. MAtoritirr addressed the Court in extenua tion On the part of Mr. Harvey, the printer. He admitted that the defendants . were legally respon 7 sibie, but contended; that in, the - circumstance3 io .which they, were placed, they' could not be . said to be guilty of a maliciOus intention, and so could not be malicioUs libellers. They had no reason to dis trust the person employed to give a true and a,..cu tate account of the proceedings alluded to in the article. They lied neith e r o f them an opportunity to peruse, 1101, in 'point of fad, had they perused ,the' publication,: which he was ready to admit was a gross libel ; net being cognisent of its contents,. therefore he submitted, that they could not be held 'to be deliberate offenders. The Attorney-General had sail it was no excuse in such a case to give Op the author. It surely was not, but undoubtedly ot, was an ettenuation of the offence, being alt the reparation which it was p in their power to offer.. The fad, too, that the same publication had been excluded from another paper, published.at the same office,, and in which these defendants were 'concern ed,'afforded the best evidence of the defendants' con trition, being given on , the spot,. and at .t he moment. Their Lordships would weigh all thesecircumstOces, and they would also take into .their consideration that the defendant, Harvey, had a wife and eight children, the eldest of them not 13 years of age, dependent on him for support. Mr. READER, for the defendant Fisher,.admitted that if the author had been standing here for judg ment, he sliOuld have found it difficult to say any thing in his defence. The case 'of Fisher, however, he 'subenitted, was very different. He was, no dotibt, liable, but it was for the court no say, how far his Mind was concerned. The Attorney-Gene ral, with that dexterity for which he was so much disniugeished, and by which he contrived to turn every thing against persons standing here for judg ment, contended, that the effer of giving up the' author was not eve() an.exteneation ut the defen dant'sguilt. If they had done so, however, would he not have adduced that as a strong circumstance • against them, and have alleged that it was a proof of their continuing to persevere in their offence ? ' Mr. J6StiCe BALLEY aSked, had • the defendants apologized in their•'paper ? • • Mr. RzADER was not prepared toassert that they had. He wished they had done so—hut though a man had not done all that he might and ought to have done, still it 'would'be hard to deny him credit for e hat he actually did. Lord ELLENEIOItOUGH ordered, that both defen. dams be committed to the Jail of Newgate, and be brought up tor judgment on the last day of Term. THE KING V. LOVELL. • The ATTORNEY-GENERAL prayed the judgment oldie Court on - Daniel Lovell, the Printer and Pro prietor of the Evening Paper called The Statesman, for publishing in his Paper of the Btla of April the same article which had appeared in The Day of the Bth, and in which he-tao had allowed judgment to go by default. _ On the part of the defendant an affidavit was put in, stating that the article had neither been written nor invented by himself, but that it had been inadver tently copied into his paper from The Day. in the ordinary course of business, with a few trifling alter ations, which did not at all change the sense of the article. He neither knew the author, at the time of copying the paper in question; nor was he now aware who be was. The defendant himself was in. a poor weakly state of 'health, being considerably; troubled with an asthma ; he had lately had ten ounces of blood taken from the margin of his ribs, and his physician had recommended' to him to profit as much as possible by the open air.- The' ATTORNEY-GENERAA said, it Was for the Cana to judge how far what had been alleged in the affidavit was any extenuation of the defendant's guilt. To his idea it was not any, the - slightest ex tenuation, for It appeared to him, that a person who, seeing such a publication, extracted froth it, and gave it -additional publicity, was as, guilty as the anthor of it. Ot the weak state of thedefendant's health, he carried the appearance in his cOuntenance, but be should have thought of that before he com mitted the offence. Whatever weight, however, the Court might be inclined to give to this circum stance, he was far from wishing to detract from it. "The defendant having no Counsel, he was then asked if be had any, thing to say for himself? He alleged the great haste with which daily pa • hers must be made up for publication. 'Lord ELLENBOROOGH said, they •should, not ,be prepared with more than proper haste. A publisher of an evening paper 'too had great pa- t of the day to make it. up, and it could not be admitted, that, under the idea of proceeding in the usual course of business, an Editor of an evening paper should be .entitled to -transfer into it all the venom which he could extract frOm the morn i ng papers. 'lf persons in that situation, however, chose to proceed With such a degree of haste as to preclude the possibility of proper care being taken in the t. eiedion, henaust take the consequences. His Lordship ordered the defendant to be-com mitted to the custody of - the Marshal of the Mar shalcea of - the Coart; . and td' be brolig!,t up 1 jud;inent on the aterm. TUE KING - V. - RYAN ANb RYLEY♦ The two defendants 131c1 been found guilty at th. Lancashire Assires, of ende34ourit,g't,, persuade soli fliers ty:desert from his Majesty's service. Thi convidtons took placq,lntZer the Att of Ist Geo. L and the sentence of th'e'Coui - t, upOn each . of the demi fendants Was; that they be impri so n e d two ca l enrat months in the'easile of Lancaster, and ,do vii in 0)4 p4iod stand in ihe ,. pillory, ort a m a il : e t d,, ti, at LtverpoOl, where th e otfences were committed. O.P. RIOT AT PLYMOUTH-DOCK'. Monday , night th , ! _Theatre at Plymouth-Dock opened for the first time this season; with. ;be Tra. gedy of Jane Shore, and the Farce or Lock drill Keg. -The house having been newly painted and decorated,- the Manager thought proper to raise the price of ad niission—t he Boxes from-3q to 4s. and the 'Pit frorrti ,•2s. to 2sAid. with.(in additional Sixpence on the halfin 'price admission to the Box e s. A great .number of orders were distributed among the Manager's friends, and the first three ads of the play went. off tolerably tranquil ; but-on the admission of half-price, a dread ful scene of riot-and. confusion commenced, which could not be exceeded by the height of the war in the Metropolis. It was quite impossible to.- hear a word of the performance. Apples, ofrinigds, halfpence, sticks, and even glass-bottles flewittltiou: in every diredion„ to the iminittent'rik of a 7nvenber of lives. The most . naive among the' advoCateg of • 'O. P. Were a body of-sailors, beadedby:several.Mtd-. shipmen, who all seemed determined -to conqber , or die. Mattersat last began to wear so serious au as pect,-that a- military detachment Was , sent' for - and:. introduced on -the stage. ,No sooner, howeVery had they made their appearance, than the 'sailors Tug:lied on - the stage in a. bo I y4 and, regardless of the_ fixed bayonets, they drove the soldiers from the stage, and kept possession of it themselves for-a - considerable• Otherparties of theM took their stations in the Pit and Boxes, and there appeared every dispo sition both in thern l and the other advocates of O. 1 0 .. to 'do seriens mischief to the house, which had al ready felt the efi'eas of their vengeance. At last the Manager, finding the opposition to the new prices so general and strong, came forward, and having - with difficulty Obthined a hearing, informed thb audience that the prices of admission should be re.'. • (tubed to their former, standard. This speech was hailed with three cheers, and the audience shortly after separated. • Several - persons were- severely bruised, but no lives were lost. The persevering spirit ,and laudable efforts of Mr. HOBBS (the liberal projeoor and manager of the three last annual Musical Festivals, which have done so nutch honour to Bath and Somersetshire), has succeeded in making the Lower Rooms the very centre of brilliance and fashion. This very • beautiful Edifice has been for sevetal months fitting up in a style of first tats elegance, and opened on Tuesday last with an edit unprecedented even in Bath. The Ball-Ro. , m was filled by all the fashion and beauty in the city, and upwards of 490 joi:.ed in the festive mazes of the dancing, which com menced with the' Muth admired 'tune " Lord Newark." The Ball-Room exhibited a scene of ele gant splendour, and is truly woithy of the triumph of the arts, which this season promises to achieve. The floor was chalked in a very superior style, ‘4 ith trophies classically musical, and the.alcoves ins' the upper 'compartments presented several beautiful groupes of. Orpheus end Eurydice, Apollo and Daphne; the Graces, Clio and Terpsichere; Sze. from Antiques. At nine o'clock the Tea-Room was thrown open, when the elegant arrangement and singular effect produCed by the beauty and uni formity of 'the Tea Equipage' excited the warmest admiration, while the elegant display of Jellies, Ices, &c. did credit to the spirit and taste of Mr. LANZA, the Proprietor. The dancing continued with great vivacity, and it was with difficulty the lively groupes could be -dispersed, even at the ex- tended period of midnight, when every indiVidual quitted the Room enchanted with the fascination of the fairyland they were leaving, and ( deeply pene:*, trated by the ,elegant manners and unceasine. partial attentions which were so unremittingly be- stowed by G. F. GROYNNETTE, Esq, the Master of Ceremonies. The Saloon, for the reception of Sub scribers, is furnished in a superb style, and, among other elegancies, presents a capital Portrait of the great RAVZZINI. Doctor ROBEIITON, whoa few months ago fled from his bail in England, and escaped to Amsterdam, has been arrested there, , and sent to Paris as au English spy. • • SMITHFIELD MARKET, Nov. 23. . • This day's Market was not well suPplied,,With different kinds of Cattle;, Beef, l'autton, and Pork, were cheaper than our last report;. Veal-sold at last price ; and the trade. in geperal was somewlin flat.—The sales in the Hay Market were not lively gay has got up in price ; Straw and Clover obtalned last prices. —The following prices and numbers are an accurate statement • To sink the ail per stone of 81b. • Beef 4s. od. to Ss. ed. Mutton 4s. od. to ss. cd. Veal ss. c.d. to 75. od. Pork ss. od: to 75. od. Lamb os. od, to as. od; Beasts 6so. Sheep 4,200. Calves 180. Pigs 230. SMITHFIELD HAY•MARKET Hay 5). os. od., to 91; Os. od. Straw-al. los. pd, to ;I. os. - .od. Clover 61. : 05. od. to 91. ios. od. . , CORN-;EXCHANGE, Nov. B.—this' day there are but short supplies of Wheat, and waiting .arri• vats, sales are heavily efieded at last prices ; Bat-' ley and Mali continue to vary but little ; While Pease somewhat cheaper ; Beans ot\the iwo,kirids fully• keep their prices ; new Ticks, 3(is. lo 435., old as per currency ; Oats likewise in short supply, and last prices fully maintain the quotation ; !Tour at our last currency. Wheat -68 s a Bos 4 94s - Tick Bean's- 45s a ' pp Fine ditto - - 95 s a to2S Oats - - 25, 305 -a .34: Rye (new) - -36 s a 4as Poland ditto . 30.• 4 3 9 s Barley - . - 34$ a 47s Poi'atoe ditto - 42 a --s Malt - . . 72s a Bos Rape Seed . . 461 a5O White Peale -58 S a 64s Fine hicur • Bos a Zss Grey ditto - -43 s a 53s Seconds - • - 755 a B.os Leans - . - saes a 574